Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations (attn: Richard Weait, etc.)

2012-10-27 Thread Russ Nelson
My only objection to network=US:US:Business / ref=80 is How do you know it's Business-80 or 80-Business on the signs? In essence here, we have the tension between free-format tagging and machine-parsable and understandable tagging. Syntax and semantics. We *definitely* don't need tagging with

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations (attn: Richard Welty, etc.)

2012-10-27 Thread Michal Migurski
On Oct 24, 2012, at 5:01 PM, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com wrote: NE2 asked me to revert the changes, because he's unhappy with me moving the route variant information from the ref tags to the modifier tags, e.g. turning ref=80

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations (attn: Richard Weait, etc.)

2012-10-27 Thread Russ Nelson
Paul Johnson writes: On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: My only objection to network=US:US:Business / ref=80 is How do you know it's Business-80 or 80-Business on the signs? Isn't that the argument in favor of network=US:US / ref=80 /

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations (attn: Richard Weait, etc.)

2012-10-27 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/27/12 2:46 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: If the former, then it matters if it's Business-80 or 80-Business. If the latter, then as long as we preserve the modifier, then we're good. at this point, i think i've seen enough to know that what goes on the signs can be a little bit unpredictable. on

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations (attn: Richard Weait, etc.)

2012-10-27 Thread Russ Nelson
Richard Welty writes: On 10/27/12 2:46 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: If the former, then it matters if it's Business-80 or 80-Business. If the latter, then as long as we preserve the modifier, then we're good. at this point, i think i've seen enough to know that what goes on the signs can be

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations (attn: Richard Welty, etc.)

2012-10-24 Thread Michal Migurski
On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: On Oct 21, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: I feel like this scrubbing process has revealed so much about the intricacies of different road networks that I'm going to take a slightly different approach, and focus my work on just

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations (attn: Richard Welty, etc.)

2012-10-24 Thread Alexander Jones
Using your example, the network tag should say US:US:Business Alexander Michal Migurski wrote: On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: On Oct 21, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: I feel like this scrubbing process has revealed so much about the intricacies of

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations (attn: Richard Welty, etc.)

2012-10-24 Thread Dale Puch
That is my understanding as well based on previous discussions. For For US Business route 80: network = US:US:Business ref = 80 On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Alexander Jones happy5...@gmail.comwrote: Using your example, the network tag should say US:US:Business Alexander Michal Migurski

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations (attn: Richard Weait, etc.)

2012-10-24 Thread Michal Migurski
(Changing subject line to the Richard I originally meant) That was my understanding as well, but I got feedback that boiled down to don't mess with the network tags (too much). What do others think about this? -mike. On Oct 24, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Dale Puch wrote: That is my understanding as

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-24 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: They use the same shield, and even TXDOT signs Farm Road and Ranch Road interchangeably. They're definitely the same network. While they use the same numbering sequence (as do State Highway Spurs and State Highway

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations (attn: Richard Welty, etc.)

2012-10-24 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com wrote: I applied these changes to OSM last night, in a series of five changesets: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13611326 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13612265

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com wrote: You can check the highway designation file for the correct designation of specific routes. If something else is on the sign, the local district probably screwed up (several TxDOT district offices aren't exactly known

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-23 Thread Michal Migurski
On Oct 21, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: I feel like this scrubbing process has revealed so much about the intricacies of different road networks that I'm going to take a slightly different approach, and focus my work on just the ref and modifier tags. I can standardize the

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.comwrote: I think there is still some misunderstanding. One of the transforms is: 1704295,road,US:TX:Spur,601,,US:TX,601,Spur,happy5214,5 Spur in Texas is not a modifier; it's a distinct type of route that is numbered

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-22 Thread Alexander Jones
Paul Johnson wrote: FM and RM are the same network...seems odd for them to show up twice here... I could've sworn that the general consensus from a previous argument was one network per shield type. Alexander ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Oct 22, 2012 9:57 AM, Alexander Jones happy5...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: FM and RM are the same network...seems odd for them to show up twice here... I could've sworn that the general consensus from a previous argument was one network per shield type. They use the same

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-22 Thread Michal Migurski
On Oct 22, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Oct 22, 2012 9:57 AM, Alexander Jones happy5...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: FM and RM are the same network...seems odd for them to show up twice here... I could've sworn that the general consensus from a previous

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-22 Thread John F. Eldredge
Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Alexander Jones happy5...@gmail.comwrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Oct 22, 2012 9:57 AM, Alexander Jones happy5...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: FM and RM are the same network...seems odd for

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:57 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.comwrote: Did they switch from one term to the other at some point? If so, the mix of signs on the same route might be because some of the signs have been replaced as they rusted out and/or got used for target practice. Not

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-21 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2012-10-20 4:00 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: - Normalizing network names for all county routes with the :CR infix I'm not enthusiastic about sticking `:CR` in all the county route relations. I favor `US:[state]:[county]`, at least for the relations in Ohio, for the same reason we

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-21 Thread Michal Migurski
On Oct 21, 2012, at 5:28 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: On 2012-10-20 4:00 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: - Normalizing network names for all county routes with the :CR infix I'm not enthusiastic about sticking `:CR` in all the county route relations. I favor `US:[state]:[county]`, at least for

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-21 Thread Chris Lawrence
I think there is still some misunderstanding. One of the transforms is: 1704295,road,US:TX:Spur,601,,US:TX,601,Spur,happy5214,5 Spur in Texas is not a modifier; it's a distinct type of route that is numbered separately from the main state highway system. Same deal with Loop, etc.

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-20 Thread Michal Migurski
I did not know about the Aperiodic site, very cool! It sounds from the advice there that I should use a different strategy with the network tags, and duplicate the Loop, Business and other modifiers to that tag. -mike. On Oct 19, 2012, at 11:26 PM, Chris Lawrence wrote: My only concern with

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-20 Thread Michal Migurski
Based on feedback from route relation mappers and people on this list, here's a list of 7,575 route relation changes I'd like to make: http://mike.teczno.com/img/OSM-Extracted-Routes-changes.csv.zip Some of the rules I've followed: - Shortening ref tags to just what goes on a

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-20 Thread Michal Migurski
On Oct 20, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Paul Norman wrote: From: Michal Migurski [mailto:m...@stamen.com] Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 4:01 PM To: OpenStreetMap U.S. Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations Based on feedback from route relation mappers and people on this list, here's

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-19 Thread Michal Migurski
On Oct 18, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Toby Murray wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com wrote: Hi everyone, We're getting ready to do a major data update to the Stamen Terrain layer and I've been working on scrubbing the route relations data from OSM. I've

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-18 Thread Richard Welty
the scrubbing looks mostly ok, BUT... i am one of the folks who started out using US:state:CR for county route networks, which i now believe was a mistake. we really should be using county names, not CR in the network tag, e.g. network=US:NY:Rensselaer otherwise we can't really tell which

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-18 Thread Michal Migurski
Hi Richard, thanks! The CR vs. County name thing is new to me. Another mapper suggested that I replace them with something like this so it's not necessary to know all the county names in order to correctly interpret something as a county route: network=US:NY:CR:Rensselaer Kosher?

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-18 Thread Richard Welty
it's not a traditional method of doing that, but i do think it could work. it does also seem to address Paul Johnson's concern about distinguishing some cases. richard On 10/18/12 9:36 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: Hi Richard, thanks! The CR vs. County name thing is new to me. Another mapper

Re: [Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

2012-10-18 Thread Toby Murray
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com wrote: Hi everyone, We're getting ready to do a major data update to the Stamen Terrain layer and I've been working on scrubbing the route relations data from OSM. I've linked to a before and after CSV, processed via Google